Thanks to the proliference of Twitter in the last 12 months I've been more aware than ever of the amount of hope and fear put into the weather during one week in June.
I don't think there's any other event that generates the same sort of interest - short of England's Ashes campaign being weather dependent - Glastonbury attracts the most fervent weather-watching.
Firstly the Met Office is by far the most used Government Website and so this week actually raises peak traffic to government sites, so Glastonbury helps some anxious civil servants meet their traffic targets. Secondly there are a huge host of sites outside the BBC and Met Office that each have an opinion about the skies above. Netweather.tv has its own blog entries and forum discussion about the Festival weather. Meanwhile there was the 'Monsoon theory' that scored some well-timed publicity for the University of Southampton. Whatever happens, pack your mac* and your wellies.
*Not that Mac, the one you wear to keep the rain off.
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The weather in London will be absolutely glorious, as they've just built the roof at Wimbledon and will now never need it.
There will, however, be a freak monsoon over Somerset. It's the law.
I'm just glad that I finally get sunshine on my birthday for the first time in 21 years!
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